Only 9% of students from poor families complete college in the US, compared with 77% from wealthy families.

Those 9% are terribly burdened by debt.

In other words, poor people have very little chance to advance.

If only 44% of the wealthy got college degrees in 1970, surely the other 56% were not hindered by lack of money. Either they were not good enough students, or they saw no need to bother, but I don't know which. I wonder why nowadays 77% of them get college degrees.

A US government memo acknowledged that force-feeding prisoners violates international law. This may exculpate a nurse who refused to do force feeding and is now facing charges of "refusal to be cruel and inhumane".

Donors pledged 3 billion dollars of aid to the countries hit by Ebola virus but have really given only 40% of that.

If they had sent money faster, they could have ended the epidemic sooner.

The UK's "anti-terrorism" bill would extend the UK's crackdown on freedom of expression, which has already gone dangerously far.

The non-rich in the UK are suffering an "epidemic of private despair"; in a political system which treats them like scum, they think of themselves as scum.

Some Deny Society Exists. Let's Prove Them Wrong.

If you are being oppressed, don't blame yourselves! You are not scum. The plutocrats and the politicians that obey them are scum.